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Thank you all!!! Your quick responses and perspectives are greatly appreciated and have clarified a lot for me that wasn't clear earlier, which will help me when I review the contract and reach out to the publisher again. On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 1:00 AM, SCIART-L automatic digest system < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > There are 4 messages totaling 452 lines in this issue. > > Topics of the day: > > 1. illustration rights (4) > > Subscribe to Sciart-L by completing the form at https://listserv.unl.edu/ > signup-anon > > List name is Sciart-L > > To unsubscribe, complete form at https://listserv.unl.edu/ > signup-anon?UNSUB=1 > > Problems: Email Lana at [log in to unmask] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:28:35 -0400 > From: Tammy Cloutier <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: illustration rights > > Hello all! > > I am not a natural science illustrator (although I hope to collaborate with > one for my PhD work), but am hoping for feedback from this professional > community. I think I may have seen previous posts that relate to my > question, so searched the archives, but didn't see the answer. However, my > apologies if I overlooked it! > > My question...I wrote a children's book that relates to my PhD work, which > was published last year, and worked with a local illustrator in Maine. I > paid the illustrator for his work, but he unfortunately passed away shortly > before the book was published. > > I am interested in obtaining at least 1 or 2 of the original illustrations, > but have not received a response from his surviving partner or the small > publisher I used. As illustrators, can you please tell me if you would own > the rights to these illustrations, or would I have access to them since I > commissioned them for my own project? > > Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! > > Subscribe to Sciart-L by completing the form at https://listserv.unl.edu/ > signup-anon > > List name is Sciart-L > > To unsubscribe, complete form at https://listserv.unl.edu/ > signup-anon?UNSUB=1 > > Problems: Email Lana at [log in to unmask] > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:38:00 -0400 > From: "Emily S. Damstra" <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: illustration rights > > Tammy, > Generally speaking, when one commissions an illustration in a situation > like you've described, one is licensing the image for the stated purpose, > not owning it (or the original artwork) outright. However, two parties can > come up with any arrangement they want so it all depends on the language in > your contract. Every situation is unique. Do you have a contract with the > illustrator? > --- > *Emily S. Damstra* > natural science illustration > Guelph, Ontario > (519) 616-3654 > *[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>* > emilydamstra.com > @EmilyDamstra > > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 9:28 AM Tammy Cloutier <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > Hello all! > > > > I am not a natural science illustrator (although I hope to collaborate > > with one for my PhD work), but am hoping for feedback from this > > professional community. I think I may have seen previous posts that > relate > > to my question, so searched the archives, but didn't see the answer. > > However, my apologies if I overlooked it! > > > > My question...I wrote a children's book that relates to my PhD work, > which > > was published last year, and worked with a local illustrator in Maine. I > > paid the illustrator for his work, but he unfortunately passed away > shortly > > before the book was published. > > > > I am interested in obtaining at least 1 or 2 of the original > > illustrations, but have not received a response from his surviving > partner > > or the small publisher I used. As illustrators, can you please tell me if > > you would own the rights to these illustrations, or would I have access > to > > them since I commissioned them for my own project? > > > > Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! > > > > > > ________________________________________________ > > > > Need to leave or subscribe to the Sciart-L listserv? Follow the > > instructions at > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www. > gnsi.org_resources_reviews_gnsi-2Dsciart-2Dl-2Dlistserv&d=DwIBaQ&c= > Cu5g146wZdoqVuKpTNsYHeFX_rg6kWhlkLF8Eft-wwo&r=AGYZ7-AeerjxzYnIwL- > lBLFI3SPYN3BDmku4qGQB4Tg&m=4E6k5MO6nIg9DqeqgaLIv6JtPnCSFn > cJFyMYefqNy7g&s=qxmimtLTdq-oSsnFBByIDwYveQb_o7CkMqLRBTILUsg&e= > > > > Subscribe to Sciart-L by completing the form at https://listserv.unl.edu/ > signup-anon > > List name is Sciart-L > > To unsubscribe, complete form at https://listserv.unl.edu/ > signup-anon?UNSUB=1 > > Problems: Email Lana at [log in to unmask] > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:55:55 -0600 > From: Marjorie Leggitt <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: illustration rights > > Hi Tammy. > > Quick answer: unless otherwise noted in a contract, the copyright to > artwork remains with the illustrator. > > Marjorie Leggitt > > Leggitt Design > 303-394-0566 > [log in to unmask] > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www. > science-2Dart.com_leggitt&d=DwIFAg&c=Cu5g146wZdoqVuKpTNsYHeFX_ > rg6kWhlkLF8Eft-wwo&r=AGYZ7-AeerjxzYnIwL-lBLFI3SPYN3BDmku4qGQB4Tg&m= > SlmxfkCQYPSg5a_on_buqP5ngtYVPgNMT4xmNH43ZXc&s=ayIwKBU8DZJ2Dr82rEZAc3B- > RoCWe0JTuoXgK1z8CpM&e= > > > On Jun 26, 2018, at 7:28 AM, Tammy Cloutier <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > > Hello all! > > > > I am not a natural science illustrator (although I hope to collaborate > with one for my PhD work), but am hoping for feedback from this > professional community. I think I may have seen previous posts that relate > to my question, so searched the archives, but didn't see the answer. > However, my apologies if I overlooked it! > > > > My question...I wrote a children's book that relates to my PhD work, > which was published last year, and worked with a local illustrator in > Maine. I paid the illustrator for his work, but he unfortunately passed > away shortly before the book was published. > > > > I am interested in obtaining at least 1 or 2 of the original > illustrations, but have not received a response from his surviving partner > or the small publisher I used. As illustrators, can you please tell me if > you would own the rights to these illustrations, or would I have access to > them since I commissioned them for my own project? > > > > Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! > > > > > > ________________________________________________ > > > > Need to leave or subscribe to the Sciart-L listserv? Follow the > instructions at > > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www. > gnsi.org_resources_reviews_gnsi-2Dsciart-2Dl-2Dlistserv&d=DwIFAg&c= > Cu5g146wZdoqVuKpTNsYHeFX_rg6kWhlkLF8Eft-wwo&r=AGYZ7-AeerjxzYnIwL- > lBLFI3SPYN3BDmku4qGQB4Tg&m=SlmxfkCQYPSg5a_on_buqP5ngtYVPgNMT4xmNH43ZXc&s= > ZpNkTd8_Fe05XVKdwiYzJbJm-hzKArncO-yqNfPaZmw&e= > > Subscribe to Sciart-L by completing the form at https://listserv.unl.edu/ > signup-anon > > List name is Sciart-L > > To unsubscribe, complete form at https://listserv.unl.edu/ > signup-anon?UNSUB=1 > > Problems: Email Lana at [log in to unmask] > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:32:51 -0400 > From: Britt Griswold <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: illustration rights > > Tammy, > > If there is not an agreement on ownership in the contract, the art is the > property of the artist. > This is separate from reproduction rights for your book, which are > hopefully properly addressed in > the contract with the publisher. > > Do you know that the original final art for the book is a physical object? > A lot of commercial work > these days starts as pencil and paper, but quickly moves into the computer > for ease of correction or > completion. So there may not be a image for you to buy, other than some > reproduction prints. If that > is all you want, you might get that at a reasonable cost, it the files are > available. > > Since you are the one who is driving the car on your book project as the > author, you might want to > see if it would be possible to get all the art, so it would be available > for future editions of the > work. At the very least it would be comforting to have a set of the > digital files, if those were the > final products, just as backup. You would still need to follow the > contract on publishing and sales > issues, but the fact that you are having a hard time getting information > and the publisher is small, > could mean at some point in the near future there may be no access at all > to the materials. After an > artist dies, there is a pretty decent chance that the original art that > has no real meaning to their > kin, if they have kin, will end up in the trash. Or the inheritors may > hold the art as a sacred > reminder of the person and never want to part with it, you just don't know. > > The original art can possibly be purchased from the inheritor of the > artist's property/work, and > potentially you could also do a buyout of the reproduction rights as well > (but check with the > publisher's contract to see what they "own" and for how long they own it.) > I want to wish you luck > in making contact with them. > > Britt > > > On Jun 26, 2018, at 7:28 AM, Tammy Cloutier <[log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> > wrote: > > Hello all! > > > > I am not a natural science illustrator (although I hope to collaborate > with one for my PhD work), > > but am hoping for feedback from this professional community. I think I > may have seen previous > > posts that relate to my question, so searched the archives, but didn't > see the answer. However, my > > apologies if I overlooked it! > > > > My question...I wrote a children's book that relates to my PhD work, > which was published last > > year, and worked with a local illustrator in Maine. I paid the > illustrator for his work, but he > > unfortunately passed away shortly before the book was published. > > > > I am interested in obtaining at least 1 or 2 of the original > illustrations, but have not received > > a response from his surviving partner or the small publisher I used. As > illustrators, can you > > please tell me if you would own the rights to these illustrations, or > would I have access to them > > since I commissioned them for my own project? > > > > Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! > > > Subscribe to Sciart-L by completing the form at https://listserv.unl.edu/ > signup-anon > > List name is Sciart-L > > To unsubscribe, complete form at https://listserv.unl.edu/ > signup-anon?UNSUB=1 > > Problems: Email Lana at [log in to unmask] > > ------------------------------ > > End of SCIART-L Digest - 19 Jun 2018 to 26 Jun 2018 (#2018-73) > ************************************************************** > -- Best, Tammy Subscribe to Sciart-L by completing the form at https://listserv.unl.edu/signup-anon List name is Sciart-L To unsubscribe, complete form at https://listserv.unl.edu/signup-anon?UNSUB=1 Problems: Email Lana at [log in to unmask]